Dr. Jian Xu

jian.xu@ucas.ac.cn

Education and Employment
2025.04 – Now     Associate Professor
School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS, P. R. China
2024.09 – 2024.12  Postdoctoral Researcher
Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)
2019.10 – 2024.09  Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry
Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)
2016.09 – 2019.06  M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry
Hangzhou Normal University

Fellowships and Awards
2018  Chinese Government Scholarship
2019  Graduation with Distinction of Zhejiang Province, China
2019  China Scholarship Council (CSC) Fellowship


[1] Jian Xu, Shenglai Yao, Verònica Postils, Eduard Matito, Christian Lorent, Matthias Driess*, Chem. Sci., 2025, Accepted.
[2] Jun Fan^‡, Jian Xu^‡, Qin Ma^‡, Shenglai Yao, Lili Zhao, Gernot Frenking*, Mitthias Driess*, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 20458−20467. [^‡: contributed equally]
[3] Jian Xu, Sudip Pan, Shenglai Yao, Christian Lorent, Christian Teutloff, Zhaoyin Zhang, Jun Fan, Andrew Molino, Konstantin B. Krause, Johannes Schmidt, Robert Bittl, Christian. Limberg, Lili Zhao, Gernot Frenking*, Mitthias Driess*, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 6025−6036.
[4] Jian Xu, Sudip Pan, Shenglai Yao, Gernot Frenking*, Mitthias Driess*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202209442.
[5] Jian Xu, Chenshu Dai, Shenglai Yao, Jun Zhu, Matthias Driess*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202114073.
[6] Jian Xu, Xu-Qiong Xiao, Chenting Yan, Zhifang Li*, Qiong Lu, Qian Yang, Guoqiao Lai*, and Mitsuo Kira*, Organometallics, 2018, 37, 2399-2405.
[7] Liliang Wang, Jian Xu, Mitsuo Kira*, Liping Yan, Xu-Qiong Xiao, Zhifang Li*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 1980-1984.
[8] Liping Yan, Chenting Yan, Jian Xu, Lele Yang, Gaofeng Bian, Liliang Wang, Mitsuo Kira, and Zhifang Li, Dalton Trans., 2021, 50, 10806-10810.